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Thank you, thank you, thank you. My mum has one of these.. she is 102 next month. Her house this week has been at 29 Celcius! … I now know how to re-set it.... and WOW... A CHILD LOCK for my mum!
Rob Dunger youre incredibly welcome. you also have the option of installing a ‘hub’ - so you could keep an eye on the temperature from your phone and control it remotely... just a thought for a lady of that age. take care and hope you guys are well.
@@petegasguy it's an adjoining house.. so I can pop round. In the meantime. .. all the doors and windows are open.. your explanation was exactly at the right pace!
Hi I’ve been thinking about getting a nest or hive system for a while but thought it would be a complex task. After watching a few RU-vid videos, I’m convinced it should be quite easy but the system in my house is slightly different to things I’ve seen on here. The house was built in 2013 and was installed with a very complex Danfoss (hence the need change) controller near the boiler. It is a pressurised water tank type system. There is a separate upstairs and downstairs heating zone valve and a hot water valve. The downstairs has a non adjustable thermostatic sensor which is set by adjusting the controller. The upstairs has another programmable thermostat (looks very similar to the controller). I don’t want to have to buy 2 new systems to control the upstairs and downstairs. I suppose if I buy one system, I could parallel both zone valves in the wiring centre and remove the upstairs stat and wiring? The boiler is downstairs in the kitchen and the wiring centre is upstairs in the cupboard with the water tank and valves. I don’t think the NEST system would work for the 12v dc stat supply as I’d have to run a cable all the way back to the kitchen to pick up the supply for it. As the hive seems to be a stand alone , am I correct in thinking this should be the one to buy?
We fit quite a few Nest installations, you can buy a little stand that you plug into a normal socket, so you can site it anywhere you need it. so it is also stand alone. good luck.
Thanks for the video. The time on my boiler is correct but not on the thermostat. I have looked over and over but I have no idea how to correct this, do you know how to solve this?
Hey. So I've just moved in to a house and the previous owners have this system fitted. Ive switched to octopus energy so will this still work? Also, does having this fitted make the pysical controls redundant? By this I mean the boiler has the water and heat twist controls on the front (low to high) and each radiator has its own twisty plastic knob on the side (goes from * to 6). Do you just max out all the physical switches on the boiler and the radiators then control everything from the hive controler? It's a bit confusing. Hope that makes sence
British gas installed this (just the control) today and we set the timer for 6am to 9pm. It's currently just after 10pm and the radiators are still piping hot. Is that normal? How long does it take for the heating to go off or is there a malfunction somewhere?
Holiday mode is having issue, I cannot set or reset it to a future date. Even in the video the system did not set that to the future date.. Whats the work around, desparate to know as my hot water has stopped coming.. Thanks
fantastic video thank you. I care for a disabled lady and she has a hive I've got the gist of working it but when I turn the target temperature up and press the tick the actual temperature doesn't come up to match it. the actual temperature was sitting at 18 all day, any suggestions please. I had British Gas out as I thought it was faulty and they said it was fine!!!! help
Stick it in a fridge for 15 mins… does the temperature change? If not - then faulty unit. Call hive - they’ll talk you through a factory reset to see if that sorts out the potential Issue
Hello, I have one of these installed recently and I don’t have the app yet so I only use the controller, When I set the heating off, it goes back into manual mode next morning automatically with set temperature set around 6 degree c. Is that normal?
Hi pete great video Thankyou I’m new to hive I just have a little problem with the boost I increased the boost from 1 hour to 5 hours I pressed the green tick at the time it was very cold that day . But now when I want to use the boost for one hour it now goes on 5 hours how do I go back to one hour . Sorry I get so confused Thankyou Karen x
Hi Karen, to change the boost duration I believe you just press the boos button again. So you’d press it once to bring the boost menu up so you can set the temperature, and while still on that screen click the boost button again and the time should change. :)
What do I need to do to get one of these? I know absolutely nothings about heatings and that sort of stuff, I have a basic thermostat on my wall and some sort of gas combi boiler. Do I only have to buy this little device? I'm clueless about this stuff lol. Can anyone explain what I need to do from start to finish to get one of these working in my house?
Read all the blurb but one thing isn’t clear to me. Is it wifi only or will it work through my phone away from the house? Sorry if it’s a dumb question but nothing I can find clarifies this.
Please help. Two days with new hive thermostat (manual), but when I want to set the heat to come on in the morning, it won't go earlier than 6.30am and I need it too come on at 2am (I do shift work). Any ideas please?
Does anybody know why my one says it's really warm in my house when it's actually really cold? It's about 13° inside the house but the thermostat says 24. It always says it's really warm so when I want the heating to come on, I have to turn it up to some crazy number like 26° just to get some warmth. It's nowhere near a radiator.
@@petegasguy thanks. I put it in the fridge and it dropped to 19 after 10 minutes. In the freezer for 5 and it dropped to 17. So I guess it works. But just wrong
@@ObsidianXXX i’d be giving hive a bell to see if there’s anything they can do… perhaps a factory reset will sort the issue…?? If not, they’re pretty good and if under warranty they may send a replacement
Has this question been answered yet? We would love to know what the answer is as the unit just goes off far to quickly given no chance to really read it properly.
I never had a thermostat. It says room temperature is 21 when heating is off, if I set up target 20 degrees and timer to start automatically in 2 min, will it start anyway? Despite room temperature is higher then target??
Got one of these recently with my new boiler fitting from British gas. It replaced my timer and old thermostat. Ridiculously over complicated, could set up the old system in about two minutes, but this thing is mind bogglingly complex with no user guide. Cannot get it to do what I need and the heating is now on all of the time which I assume suits British Gas because they can now charge me about a million pounds a month to my gas bill.
Sorry this video couldn’t help you. I tried to make it as simple as i could and i can’t think of a way to make it easier to follow. Try calling hive - they may be able to assist you further.
